EP | 11: Benefits of Creating a Morning, Nighttime, and Cleaning Routine

Cue the New You | Meritt Rollins Brown

A cleaning routine can benefit your household as well as your mind. It will help simplify your life and allow you to have more freedom to do things you want. Creating a clean and organized environment takes time, patience, and self-reliance. If you start showing up for yourself and doing the everyday tasks you don’t necessarily want to do, it will signal to your brain that you are reliable and you can do hard things. Functioning off of to-do lists causes my brain to be in a state of overwhelm, which yields procrastination and a hint of bitterness. I end up blaming my husband or my kids for never picking anything up or helping out, when in reality, I haven’t followed through with my plan of cleaning and organizing. Now, I’m not stating that your significant other or kids shouldn’t help with the household chores at all. I delegate tasks out to my family, which creates more time for me to spend quality time with them.
Additionally, Dr. Andrew Huberman of the Huberman Lab Podcast, suggests to get sunlight exposure as soon as you wake up for about 10 minutes. He also says to wait on the caffeine for 60 to 90 minutes after waking up to help with your circadian rythym, and dopamine intake.
Dr. Huberman has a podcast packed with scientific information and always has the best guest speakers. Go check his podcast out here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953110
I share something I wrote a few years ago that I still practice today. This has helped me create less stress and overwhelm in my life and has allowed me to spend more time with my family.

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